18 E. T. Atkinson — Notes on Indian Rhynchota. [No. 1, 



36. Callitettix producta, Stal. 

 Callitettix producta, Stal, Of vers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Forh. p. 153, (1865). 



Black, very finely punctured ; apex of scutellum, the tegmina, 

 abdomen, and feet, reddish testaceous : frons tumid, forming a nearly 

 straight angle, rounded at apex, without a keel : thorax hardly broader 

 than long, lateral margins of fore part a little shorter than the anterior 

 margin : tegmina narrow, slightly amplified towards the apex. Body 

 long 7 : exp. teg. 16 millims. $ . 



Reported from E. India. 



37. Callitettix versicolor, Fabr. 



Cicada versicolor, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iv. p. 50, (1794) : Syst. Rhyn. p. 69, 

 (1803). 



Callitettix versicolor, Stal, Hem. Fabr. ii. p. 11, (1869). 



Black shining, fuscous-pubescent ; tegmina with a spot before the 

 middle of the clavus and a subtransverse spot on the corium placed be- 

 tween the middle of the corium and the base, white ; two spots behind 

 the middle of the corium, the external large, transverse ; the internal 

 small, obsolete, placed at the apex of the clavus, sanguineous : wings un- 

 coloured, apical margin slightly infuscate. Body long with the tegmina 

 1]J — 12| : breadth of pronotum 3 — 3J millims. $. 



Reported from Tranquebar. 



Subfamily Aphrophorina, Stal. 



Aphrophorida, Stal, Hem. Afric. iv. p. 55, 66 (1866) : Aphrophorina, Stal, 

 Ofvers. Kong. Vet. Aka. Forh. p. 722, (1870) : Scott. E. M. M. vii. p. 241, (1871). 



Anterior margin of thorax round or angular, eyes usually transverse ; 

 scutellum flat, triangular. 



Genus Pttelus, St. Fargeau & Serville. 



Body very large : head somewhat narrower than the thorax or of 

 the same breadth, short, anteriorly obtusely and roundly subangulated, 

 entire anterior margin obtuse ; frons slightly convex, transversely obso- 

 letely sulcated, clypeus not extending beyond the apex of the anterior 

 coxse : ocelli almost equally distant from each other and from the eyes or 

 a little more distant : thorax finely rugose, quadrangular, anterior mar- 

 gin broadly rounded : scutellum longer than broad : tegmina subcultri- 

 form, narrowed towards the apex, very densely punctured : apical area 

 of wing behind the second anastomosis posteriorly acuminate, not reach- 

 ing the intramarginal vein : posterior tibise bispinose. 



